Oh this was good - internal combustion, the token child's deathbed scene, scatty and quirky characters with loopy names, villains to hiss at and I feel Bucket did a pretty good Poirot impersonation. Five star goodness.ETA: 9/3/2012:
How to describe the story? I leave to better reviewers than I. A long and complicated tale about a dispute over a will and a family inheritance that destroys most of the litigants, either to madness or death, leaving it all to the bloodsucking attorneys. There are many many unusual characters in the...
This was the first of Dickens' novels that I was able to sit through and really enjoy reading. (Having seen the miniseries with Gillian Anderson first helped immensely) One of the best looks at Victorian morality and the legal system that I've seen, filled with characters that I can not forget at al...
I read this back in 2006 as part of a book group discussion. All I remember about it was that it was long and that Dickens has a chapter in the book that sounds much like an editorial critical of the prison system of his day. I was reminded of the book because it showed up on my PageADay Book Lover'...
This should have been Dickens' best book. Wonderful, blackly humorous damnation of the legal system, and a great story, but for me the characters were more cardboard and unable to change than is usual in Dickens' stories. Almost four stars for me, but not quite.
It was OK, but I'm afraid I just don't much enjoy Dickens. I know that's my problem. Maybe they'll invent a surgical procedure some time that will allow me to correct it.
Weirdly, this was my first Dickens, except Christmas Carol, Loved it then, still love it best. I saw a funny reference the other day to someone who thought Jarndyce v. Jardyce was a real case, and how smug that made me. No story that includes spontaneous human combustion can be to dull, though, ca...
Weirdly, this was my first Dickens, except Christmas Carol, Loved it then, still love it best. I saw a funny reference the other day to someone who thought Jarndyce v. Jardyce was a real case, and how smug that made me. No story that includes spontaneous human combustion can be to dull, though, ca...
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